[issue18075] Infinite recursion tests triggering a segfault
Ronald Oussoren
report at bugs.python.org
Thu May 30 15:33:40 CEST 2013
Ronald Oussoren added the comment:
On 30 May, 2013, at 14:50, STINNER Victor <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> STINNER Victor added the comment:
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>> The patch changes the maximum stack size from 8 to 16 MByte, neither of which is huge and shouldn't cause other problems.
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> On Mac OS X: Is the memory allocated at Python startup, or on demand,
> as the stack grows? If I am correct, the physical memory is allocated
> on demand on Linux.
Memory for the stack is allocated on demand, the parameter sets the maximum size that the stack can grow to. See also man ld(1).
Ronald
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